[1]America's ramen obsession: The latest video in the New Yorker's Annals of Obsession tracks the transformation of ramen from a cheapo dorm room food to current culinary obsession showing no signs of abating. I ate the cheap ramen in college, dined at David Chang's Momofuku Noodle Bar early on, and might pick ramen as my death-bed food,^[2]1 so I guess this video was pretty much made for me. Honestly the toughest part about where I live right now is the 2-hour roundtrip drive to eat ramen. 1. Specifically, I would have a bowl of the shoyu ramen from [3]Ivan.[4]↩ Tags: [5]food [6]ramen [7]video (Via [8]kottke.org) An evergreen topic for me for sure as living in Tokyo means I can swing a dead cat and hit a dozen noodle shops. Also on: [9]Twitter __________________________________________________________________ My original entry is here: [10]America's ramen obsession. It posted Wed, 18 Jul 2018 20:06:46 +0000. Filed under: Japan, References 1. https://kottke.org/18/07/americas-ramen-obsession 2. https://kottke.org/#fn:1531851667 3. https://www.ivanramen.com/ 4. https://kottke.org/#fnref:1531851667 5. https://kottke.org/tag/food 6. https://kottke.org/tag/ramen 7. https://kottke.org/tag/video 8. http://kottke.org/ 9. https://twitter.com/TokyoGringo/status/1019675807076233216 10. https://www.prjorgensen.com/?p=1295